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My Model 3 is coming up to 4 years old. Time for some preventive maintenance. Here is a good video on the required and recommended maintenance on Teslas. What do you think? He doesn't even recommend replacing the brake fluid periodically, which is probably okay in the short or even medium...

My 2007 Honda Accord V6 is having difficulty starting. The AGM battery (which I initially suspected) had 12.01 Volts after 2 - 3 weeks of sitting and took a charge to 12.83 Volts. That all seems pretty normal. With the battery charged it started but only reluctantly. It starts quickly enough...

Our neighbour's cat is using our flower beds as a litter box. We'd rather it didn't. And it lies in wait and tries to catch birds in our yard. We'd rather it didn't do that either. We've talked to the neighbour and she says she'll clean the cat poop out of our flower beds. But that isn't...

A friend and I are thinking of each building an AC Cobra Kit Car. The Factory Five Mk4 Roadsters look terrific and the kits appear to be high quality and seem fairly complete. https://www.factoryfive.com/roadster/mk4/overview/ Does anyone know how you go about registering a Kit Car (ideally...

Tesla has cut off the music streaming portion from the Connectivity package (with no reduction in price I might add). They're promoting LiveOne to provide what amounts to the same thing, at an additional cost (though supposedly at a discounted price for Teslas - $34.99/year for the Plus package...

My FIL and his father had a fuel delivery service from the late '40s to the '80s. Here are 2 of their trucks from probably the early 1950s. Can you identify them - make, year?

There was an interesting letter to the editor in the Globe and Mail today: "As a Calgary stockbroker, I was particularly affected by the boom-bust nature of Cowtown’s economy. During the nasty downturn in 1991, I took a part-time job as a parking valet at the venerable Palliser hotel. On my...

We have a Dell desktop with a 13th generation processor (i5-13400). It's one small step away from the list of processors that Intel admits were defective and our desktop was crashing regularly when it was new (which sounds a lot like the problem with the defective processors). It's been better...

There hasn't been a discussion of kitchen ranges for about a year. Our 2007 smooth top range has just been recalled (apparently they sometimes turn on by themself) and it's failing in lots of ways so maybe it's time for a new stove. We've been researching induction ranges and they're terrific...

Good discussion of all the above points. And much more.

I was reading about women volunteers driving field ambulances in WWI. They talked about the work involved in jacking up vehicles, removing and patching inner and outer tubes, and then hand pumping the tires. At one point the women wanted to take up a collection to buy a mechanical pump but were...

We've gotten two letters recently from different charities to an unlikely sounding name at our exact address. We know the names of everyone who has ever lived at this address and this unlikely sounding name is not one of them. Could this be the start of a scam? Are they establishing our home as...

We've had out of town visitors for the past several days. We've been doing a lot of touring around in our Tesla Model 3. As they were catching the ferry this morning our friend, said "I usually like to sit in the front seat because I get motion sickness if I sit in the back seat, but that didn't...

Did something interesting today. My 12 year old grandson recently asked if we would pay for a Parkour course for him. We think it's very expensive ($440 Cdn). So we said yes but you'll have to work for the money. We offered to pay him the going rate of $40 for mowing our lawn (takes me about 1...

There has been a chain of criticism of Teslas on “Bob”. They must be crap right. Let’s consider the issues. The fit and finish is terrible. It isn’t on my Model 3. It’s comparable to my Honda Accord which most people would consider middle of the pack or better. So maybe not. Teslas are very...

Yesterday I discovered that a Ryobi rechargeable battery had been left in the charger, which was now displaying the dreaded "defective battery" warning light. I don't know if the failure was due to being left in the charger or whether it was just a coincidence. It's an 18 Volt battery and the...

I'm trying to get our range hood fan to work less erratically. It has push button switches - on/off, faster and slower. There are 3 speeds. The LED shows each speed exactly as instructed, but the fan may or may not come on at the indicated speeds. I'm pulling the various electrical connections...

This article is very interesting. It suggests that we're charging our Tesla batteries too fast, too often and too high. It also brings into question the concept of "always plugged in". My daily drives are quite short and I could do 70 - 40% or 60 - 40% and charging only every few days quite...

Here is an interesting article on heat pumps, primarily in Norway. Important points are that Norway trained workers to install them, that heat pumps work reasonably well at low temperatures, and because they act as an energy multiplier there are reduced emissions even if fossil fuel is the...

We're planning a 2 couple car rental in France next spring. The last time we were in France we rented a Renault Megane manual transmission + diesel engine hatchback. Are rental cars now mostly: manuals or automatics? diesels or gasoline engine? How does the price of gasoline compare with...